damn & hell! GGGRRRR!!

My credit card has been 'done' Someone has tried to use it to buy stuff in the States. Luckily it's been picked up by the card company & stopped early. But it does mean my current card is now unusable and I have to wait for the replacement to arrive.

Quite possibly. It's scary to think of the potential trail you leave electronically when buying stuff. I know things are supposed to be secure and I just trust that they are but it just takes one bad apple or a lapse in security and you are potentially very vulnerable.

I've had it twice, picked it up myself at the stage when they were making small tester purchases. I check my account a lot closer these days.

I just had someone transfer their balance to a card I hadn't used in months.

That would be bad enough but the fraud department I spoke to reckons they would have needed loads of personal details in order to carry out the transfer. I suppose the electoral register would have addresses, etc. Not sure about where scammers would get anything deeper from.

I had my card stopped a while back as someone was trying to use it in Delhi. The bank even left a message on the answerphone to let me know.
Sadly I didn't get it, as I was in Delhi at the time, wondering why my card wouldn't work...

I have told the bank not to authorise any overseas payments unless I tell them I am going on holiday and where to.

One of the people at work told me that the same had happened to them last week. They lost £3000 and are arguing with the bank about it. In the meantime their DD's have all failed to pay out for their bills.